Here it is! This is my act from the recent Snap Judgment live special that is currently airing on NPR and is slated to air on PBS in the fall. Watch and pass it on, if you dare. Mom & Dad — don’t say I didn’t warn you.

I don’t have much time right now to write — I’m busy getting ready to welcome over 500 of the world’s best young writers to the Bay to do their thing. Yes, my friends, it’s time for Brave New Voices. This is the culmination of the Youth Speaks program year,…

When my uncle called me this morning, I had to shush him. “Hold one second,” I whispered. “I can’t talk too loud, I’m at the library.” “You’re at the library?” he asked incredulously, his voice actually getting louder despite my request. “On the Saturday morning of a three-day weekend??” Guilty…

                                 West Oakland, California.  1. The word crashes into my left ear like a well-aimed brick. I can’t stand him… he’s so ghetto. I overhear at 15th and Broadway, from a woman talking on her cell louder than her designer heels clicking down the sidewalk. She’s sharing her disgust for an…

I love DC. Washington is what you see on TV — the White House, the monuments, the sex scandals. But where the folks actually live, where they teach, drink, ball, and tell you about “all those Bamas from Virginia” — that’s DC. That’s my hometown. But sometimes I ask myself,…